The Precious Taters of Hobbitat is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Toeless Bob with an even hand, and notable for its otherworldly petting zoo, free-roaming dinosaurs, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless population of 48.875 billion Hobbitots enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The relatively small, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nutbush City. The average income tax rate is 19.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Hobbitatian economy, worth an astonishing 25,118 trillion hairy toes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is a breathtaking 513,926 hairy toes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government ministers sport new billboards that read 'Will Trade Votes for Private Members' Bill Support', auto manufacturers bemoan the loss of their cheddar, trolls insist that strings of racial slurs mean "good morning" in obscure languages, and nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hobbitat's national animal is the lemming, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Hobbitat is ranked 295,344^th in the world and 32^nd in Antarctica for Highest Drug Use, scoring 20.43 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.